Books with author Sandra Boynton

Are you HAPPY AS A HIPPO? Or ANGRY AS A DUCK? Maybe SAD AS A CHICKEN? (Can you sadly say "CLUCK CLUCK"?) Bestselling author and illustrator Sandra Boynton is back with a brand new board book about moods and emotions. Boynton's clever animals exemplify a wide range of emotions in this hilarious story about different feelings. Little ones and adults alike are sure to smile and laugh as interactive text asks them if they are "grumpy as a moose or excited as a dog?", or maybe you might be "worried as a rabbit or contented as a frog?" With her charming quirky illustrations and trademark sense of humor, this new Boynton board book covers the first concept of moods and emotions.

It’s the return of super-sized Boynton books! Sandra Boynton’s children’s titles sell big, and now a Halloween favorite just got a little bigger. With their appealing 8 ½" x 9 ¼" format and sturdy board construction, Boynton Lap Books are easy for little fingers to grasp and the perfect size for parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles, not to mention preschool teachers, childcare providers, and librarians, to read aloud during story time. And those classic Boynton illustrations practically jump off the page. In Eek! Halloween! those chickens are nervous! “WHAT’S GOING ON HERE? WHAT DOES IT MEAN? / Relax, silly chickens! It’s HALLOWEEN!”

POOKIE'S UPSET AND POOKIE'S MOM cannot figure out why. And Pookie isn't helping, either. This familiar scenario is told with Sandra Boynton's signature humor, in both story and art. Caregivers and young children will laugh their way out of their sorrow as Mom and Pookie work things out. Never fear, a happy ending is on the way! Perfect for toddlers having a meltdown, or anyone in a plain old badmood, this book will come to the rescue for kids and adults for years to come.

365 Startling Days of Boynton is a parade of day-to-day joy, featuring a mix of classic and brand-new Sandra Boynton illustrations in full color—from line-dancing cows to gleefully grinning cats, from cake-eating hippos to pie-craving pigs. Plus crucial reminders of under-celebrated holidays including Polar Bear Day (February 27), Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day (November 15), and Parfait Day (November 25). It's Boynton for the desk or kitchen counter, all year long.

In this gripping police procedural, Officer Emily Etcitty sets a trap for a kidnapper preying on Navajo teens.When a Native American girl turns up missing during a traditional ceremony, Navajo police officer Emily Etcitty is on the case. What initially looks like nothing more than a routine runaway turns into a high-priority kidnapping case when a connection is made to several other missing girls under similar suspicious circumstances.After abandoning everything on the East Coast but his loyal dog, Patch, musician Abe Freeman is still acclimating to the Southwest and his new love interest, the beautiful and beguiling Emily. It hasn’t been easy with clashing cultures and haunted pasts, but they’re committed to making it work.Fearing for the missing girls’ safety, Emily decides to use herself as bait to set a trap for the kidnapper…and is abducted alongside another girl. Now Abe must team up with Emily’s brother and her police partner to find and save the missing girls, but the deeper they dig into the investigation, the more dangerous things become. And with the weight of a greater, far more sinister plot at play, can Emily escape the kidnapper and take him down before more girls fall victim?